You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances.
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.
